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Book SynopsisThis book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.
Table of Contents1: The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World, G M S Dann 2: The Ethnographic Tourist, N Graburn, University of California, USA 3: The Discursive Tourist, K Moore, Lincoln University, New Zealand 4: The Tourist Experience and Everyday Life, S McCabe, University of Derby, UK 5: The Home and the World: (Post) Touristic Spaces and Inauthenticy? T Jamal and S Hill, Texas A&M University, USA 6: Trusting Tourists: Tourism, Trust and the Social Order, L Kuhn, University of Western Sydney, Australia 7: The Tourist as a Social Fact, D Picard, Universite de la Reunion, France 8: Tourism as Metempsychosis and Metensomatosis: The Personae of Eternal Recurrence, A V Seaton, University of Luton, UK 9: Tourism: Enacting Modern Myths, C Hennig, Via dei Bibiena, Italy 10: A Love Affair with Elsewhere: Love as a Metaphor and Paradigm for Tourist Longing, J Lengkeek, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands 11: Leading the Tourist by the Nose, G M S Dann and J K Steen Jacobsen, Institute of Transport Economics, Norway 12: Recentring the Self in Volunteer Tourism, S Wearing, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 13: Glastonbury: A Tourist Town for all Seasons, J Digance, Griffith University, Australia and C Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia 14: The Tourist as Peak Consumer, N Wang, University of Guangzhou, PR China 15: The Cinematic Tourist: Perception and Subjectivity, B Morkham, University of Melbourne, Australia and R Staiff, University of Western Sydney, Australia 16: The Cybertourist, B Prideaux, University of Queensland, Australia
